1 JANUARY 1994, Page 19

Whistle-blower

Sir: Much as I welcome the break in Fide's stranglehold on world chess and the humili- ation of its autocratic president, it is tire- some to have to suffer Raymond Keene's increasingly shrill, anti-Fide polemics in his weekly column (Chess, 27 November etc., etc.). More than that, since both he and you, sir, have both feet in the opposing camp, it is disingenuous of him not to remind readers of this fact.

Stephen D. Barber 11 Chepstow Villas, London W11